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HOW DISEASES ARE CURED...
Posted by:
John Rose
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Date: January 06, 2016 05:06PM I recently went back and reread this very interesting article by Dr. Herbert Shelton that I originally read around 15 years ago and even though most Natural Hygienists don't understand the Ripple Effect and they don't understand or downplay the role Deficiencies play in the Disease model, most Natural Hygienists do, however, understand the role Toxemia plays in the Disease model.
What most people do NOT understand is that most Diseases have more to do with Toxemia than they have to do with Deficiencies. Obviously, we cannot bury our heads in the sand and not address these issues of Deficiency, as Shelton and Fry unfortunately did, but, more importantly, we cannot bury our heads in the sand and not address these issues of Toxicity!!! Here is a link to that article followed by some of my Recaps of that article... [www.drbass.com] HOW DISEASES ARE CURED Here are some Recaps of Shelton’s Article above: HOW DISEASES ARE CURED 1. THE MEDICAL PARADOX: IS PATHOLOGY ITS OWN CAUSE? 2. MEDICAL IGNORANCE ABOUT DISEASE 3. ATTACK AND DEFENSE 4. MAN - WELL FITTED TO LIVE ON EARTH 5. MASKING THE SYMPTOMS 6. CANNOT PREDICT 7. HOW ARE DISEASES NAMED? 8. MEASLES 9. ACUTE DISEASE = DAMAGE REPAIR 10. THE COMMON COLD 11. TOXEMIA 12. IF NO ATTENTION TO CAUSE - NEW PROBLEMS 13. TOXEMIC CRISIS = STEAM SAFETY VALVE 14. CRISIS WILL FOLLOW CRISIS 15. PROGRESSIVELY MORE SERIOUS DISEASES 16. ANYTHING CAN BE A "CURE" 17. ACUTE DISEASE - TOXEMIC CRISIS 18. "REST" IS THE SOLUTION 19. CHRONIC DISEASE - "OLD AGE" 20. BACTERIA AND EPIDEMICS 21. MEDICAL DELUSIONS 22. WATERLOO - SYMPTOMS GET WORSE WITH TIME 23. INSULIN "CURES" UNTIL DEATH OF DIABETES 24. FATTER AND MORE DEGENERATED 25. "STRONG" MEN ARE NOT STRONG 26. IGNORANCE AND COMMERCIALISM CAUSE DEATH 27. CANDY CAN KILL 28. LIGHTEN NATURE'S BURDEN 29. CHRONIC SUFFERERS - LIVE WITHIN LIMITATIONS 30. HEALTH EDUCATION 1. "Contrary to popular belief, a cold is not something that we 'catch,' but it represents a process of getting rid of something we have slowly accumulated." "To remove a gall stone and pronounce the patient cured is tantamount to saying that the stone was its own cause." 2. THE MEDICAL PARADOX: IS PATHOLOGY ITS OWN CAUSE? 3. The paradox of all medical paradoxes is that physicians recognize pathology as its own cause. Etiology and diagnosis, according to the approved theories and practices of the "regulars," starts with a developed pathology. The science of diagnosis, as practiced today, is merely the naming and classifying of established pathologies; all present and future symptoms being recognized and treated as pathognomic, all antecedent symptoms being ignored as not having any relationship to the existing pathology or so-called disease. 4. What is a system of diagnosis and treatment worth that is based on an etiology that starts with "causes" that are, in truth, but organized effects? 5. For example, when a surgeon removes a fibroid tumor, or extirpates a hyperplastic gland, or tonsil, or adenoid without a thought, or the slightest knowledge that these enlargements are but organized effects - neoplasms (new tissue growths) - that cannot possibly come into existence without cause, which cause is not touched by the operation - and, then, pronounces his - patient well (cured), does he not assume that the growth is its own cause? To remove a gall stone and pronounce the patient cured is tantamount to saying that the stone was its own cause. To remove the thyroid gland and pronounce the patient well of goitre (hyperthyroidism) is to imply that the goiter caused itself. Is it difficult to understand that all of these procedures leave the cause untouched - to result in the building of more pathology? 6. PROGRESSIVELY MORE SERIOUS DISEASES 7. Instead of seeing in these changes a progressive pathological evolution of which cancer, diabetes, disease of the heart and arteries etc., are but end-points - the wisdom of all the ages of medical science is expended in a herculean effort to prove that established pathology is its own cause. On the day that medical savants succeed in lifting themselves by their own boot-straps, they will also succeed in proving that pathology is its own cause. 1. MEDICAL IGNORANCE ABOUT DISEASE 2. What is disease? Regular medical men freely confess that they do not know. Did they know its essential nature, they would cease their learned glibness about immunity. Theoretically, one "attack" of an infectious disease establishes immunity to future "attacks." In practice, they seek to borrow the "acquired immunity" of an animal and transfer it to man. Or to produce a mild and modified form of the disease so that immunity may be established. 3. As I have so often pointed out, this is an effort to set aside the law of cause and effect. 4. Only some so-called infectious diseases are supposed to confer immunity. For example, Forel says: "One attack of gonorrhea in no way protects against a second infection, but rather predisposes to it, and when this disease becomes chronic, exacerbations or relapses of the acute stage often occur without fresh infection." Nobody thinks that one "attack" of a cold renders one immune to future "attacks." It is well known that one may have pneumonia numerous times. The same is true of typhoid fever. The fact is that only a minority of the so-called infectious diseases are supposed to confer immunity. Of these, there is not one that people have not had two or more times. For example, there are records of men and women having had smallpox as many as five times. 1. TOXEMIC CRISIS = STEAM SAFETY VALVE 2. The medical axiom that "all diseases tend to recovery" is much overworked, and by no school more than by the old school or self-styled "regulars." Why? Because the primary cause, the universal cause of disease - toxemia - is not known. The many diseases which the medical tongue so flippantly describes as functional derangements that "tend to recovery," are simply crises in toxemic saturation. In their alleged "self-recovery" in spite of "cures", palliations, and the "chief function of the physician to guard against complications," there is no recovery at all. 3. Like the escape of excess steam through the safety-valve of an engine, the steam pressure is lowered for the time being; but unless the cause of toxemic saturation is removed, crises will recur time after time, as the toxemia continues to increase, and the "curing" has to be done over and over again. 4. CRISIS WILL FOLLOW CRISIS 5. What is a self-limited disease? Disease is remedial effort. It is a process of purification and repair. When the process of compensatory elimination that is called disease, has reduced the toxemia to the toleration point, the symptoms subside spontaneously and the disease is said to be cured. But the patient is not well. He is still toxemic. The cause of the toxemia has not been removed. 6. ANYTHING CAN BE A "CURE" 7. Here in this land of so-called self-limited diseases is where all the curing methods and systems shine. Just as anything and everything seems to cure a cold, so anything and everything that may be used with which to treat the patient suffering with measles or pneumonia or gonorrhea, etc., will appear to cure. Here in the realm of "self-limited" disease the regular and the irregular cults, the faddists and the mountebanks, every phase of the curing system from the erudite professor to the most stupid lout prove the virtues of their cures. In this every-doctor's land, grandma's cataplasms cure, grand-pa's brass-ring cure for rheumatism cures, the rabbit-foot charm and buckeye for piles cure, penicillin cures pneumonia and anti-toxin cures diphtheria, the punch in the back cures measles and the herb tea cures gastritis. All cures are successful in this grand jamboree of "self-limited" crises. Christian Science and prayer are as effective as the most scientific treatment. The prayer may be, as in Africa, directed to a petrified frog - no matter, it cures. 8. WATERLOO - SYMPTOMS GET WORSE WITH TIME 9. It is in this field that all of the cures and curing systems meet their Waterloo. The pathology which has been in the making since the development of the first of these "self-limited" crises reveals no tendency to spontaneous disappearance. Rather its tendency is to grow worse and more complicated with the passing of time. Organic change occurs in more and more tissues and organs and these "complications" defy the best efforts of the peddlers of cures. Cause has been present from the beginning (the first cold of infancy represents an established toxemia) and has never been removed. 1. "Contrary to popular belief, a cold is not something that we 'catch,' but it represents a process of getting rid of something we have slowly accumulated." "To remove a gall stone and pronounce the patient cured is tantamount to saying that the stone was its own cause." 2. All of the symptomatology of measles, carefully compiled by the makers of medical text-books, as well as of all other so-called diseases, has very little meaning for the physicians of the various schools of so-called healing. What does it mean? It means that all of the eruptive fevers - all of the so-called diseases of the mucous membranes, those of the nose and lips, those involving the throat and lungs, and ending with pneumonia, and all of those that involve the outer skin - are but different forms of elimination of pent-up by-products of metabolism. They are processes of vicarious or compensatory excretion. 3. Exaltation of function - rapid heart action, rapid breathing, diarrhea, increased temperature, etc., etc.- as seen in the various so-called acute diseases, diarrhea, increased temperature, etc., etc.- as seen in the various so-called acute diseases, represents efforts of the body to eliminate toxins and repair damages. In this respect, exaltation of function is desirable and beneficial under certain conditions. Such exalted function indicates a wrong somewhere and this wrong should be searched for and righted without depressing or weakening the sum of the vital energy. 4. A cold is a catarrhal disease, a "catarrhal fever," and is a process of vicarious elimination. Contrary to popular belief, a cold is not something that we “catch,” but it represents a process of getting rid of something we have slowly accumulated. What does cold weather have to do with the cause of colds? People "catch" colds as often in warm weather as in cold weather. An increase in temperature may precipitate a cold as often as will a decrease in temperature. They have colds as often in dry as in wet weather. Men have colds as often as women, although they dress heavier. Indeed, men have more catarrh than women, because they dress more warmly, dissipate more and eat more. 5. Back of every catarrh is a toxemic state. Catarrh is impossible in the absence of toxemia. Toxemia is produced by anything and everything that enervates the body. Enervation inhibits (checks) excretion (elimination) permitting the accumulation of uneliminated waste. The accumulation of body waste - end-products of metabolism - produces toxemia. 6. TOXEMIC CRISIS = STEAM SAFETY VALVE 7. The medical axiom that "all diseases tend to recovery" is much overworked, and by no school more than by the old school or self-styled "regulars." Why? Because the primary cause, the universal cause of disease - toxemia - is not known. The many diseases which the medical tongue so flippantly describes as functional derangements that "tend to recovery," are simply crises in toxemic saturation. In their alleged "self-recovery" in spite of "cures", palliations, and the "chief function of the physician to guard against complications," there is no recovery at all. 8. Like the escape of excess steam through the safety-valve of an engine, the steam pressure is lowered for the time being; but unless the cause of toxemic saturation is removed, crises will recur time after time, as the toxemia continues to increase, and the "curing" has to be done over and over again. 9. CRISIS WILL FOLLOW CRISIS 10. What is a self-limited disease? Disease is remedial effort. It is a process of purification and repair. When the process of compensatory elimination that is called disease, has reduced the toxemia to the toleration point, the symptoms subside spontaneously and the disease is said to be cured. But the patient is not well. He is still toxemic. The cause of the toxemia has not been removed. 11. The toxemia will again rise above the toleration point and another crisis will develop. Crisis will follow crisis until organic change takes place. Gastric ulcer, diabetes, Bright's disease, heart disease, diseases of the arteries or nerves, cancer, etc., follow in the wake of recurring crises. 12. ACUTE DISEASE - TOXEMIC CRISIS 13. Our toxemic crises - so-called acute diseases - keep pace with the ebb and flow of toxemia as our habits of living hold this down within the limits of toleration or increase it above the established limits. Toleration is a state of chronic disease, a state, for example in which chronic catarrh, is continuously active throwing off toxins. Acute diseases are intermittent due to the fact that toxemia is pushed above the point of established toleration only intermittently. Chronic disease means chronic provocation. To point this differently: disease begins where cause begins and persists where cause persists. 14. "REST" IS THE SOLUTION 15. Nothing so effectively hastens the elimination of toxemia and the recuperation of nerve energy as mental, physical and physiological rest. Only through rest can the enervated body muster sufficient nerve energy with which to increase its work of elimination. By physiological rest is meant fasting, or abstinence from all food except water. Once fasting and rest have enabled the body to eliminate its stored up toxins and recuperate its nerve energy, a physiological mode of living will enable the patient to grow into better and better health until full health is reached, and to maintain health thereafter. 16. CHRONIC DISEASE - "OLD AGE" 17. If toxemia is not eliminated, if nerve energy is not restored to normal, if the causes of enervation are not removed and corrected, there can be no genuine return to health. There can be only a recession of symptoms after these have reduced the accumulated toxemia to the toleration point, perhaps slightly below, and a state of comparative comfort is again established. This state represents a very low state of health, a state of chronic toxemic saturation. In this state, despite recurring crises, there is the slow, progressive development of the many and varied forms of chronic and degenerative pathologies, not the least of which is that condition of organismal enfeeblement, impairment and decline, which we call old age. 18. BACTERIA AND EPIDEMICS 19. What about bacteria and epidemics? First, there must be a changed condition of the body's fluids and tissues, giving rise to that systemic impairment that is designated "susceptibility" or 'lowered resistance." 20. Once you grasp the fact that all bad habits lead to toxemia, it will not be difficult for you to grasp the idea that this perversion of the fluids and tissues must take place before it is possible for bacteria, which are nature's reducing forces, to make any further changes in these materials. Assuming that the scavenger work done by bacteria under these conditions actually complicates the disease, they cannot be the primary cause of disease, nor of any epidemic. 21. Epidemics of any proportion follow in the wake of some mass prostrating influence - war, prolonged dry, hot weather; prolonged wet, cold weather; sudden changes of temperature, etc. - that further enervate an already a most prostrated and greatly toxemic part of the population. The sudden rise in toxemia thus occasioned necessitates the development of a crisis to throw it off. Mass sickness follows mass prostrating influences. 22. MEDICAL DELUSIONS 23. When crises have been repeated (and cured) until organic changes are established, medical delusions multiply like rats in the corn crib - the most deluded and fatuous draw their air-line decisions, fight their therapeutic battles, and, if they belong to the "regular" school, promise therapeutic perfection - if only the United States Army and Navy will beat down the cultists and quacks, while they demonstrate the glories and wonders of "medical science" on the dear people. 24. The physicians are long on diagnosis at this terminal stage of the evolving pathology. They name exactly the pathological status quo and, although they do not hesitate to treat the patient and to accept money for their experiments, they freely confess that their treatments are ineffective. They have all been experts at curing the continuous series of recurring crises - the "self-limited" diseases - but they are all helpless before the end-point of the development of which the first crisis was the initiation. They cannot cure cancer, or diabetes, or Bright's disease, or endocarditis, or arteriosclerosis. On a final note, Shelton supervised over 50,000 Water Fasts, so he KNEW what he was talking about when it comes to Toxemia and most people who criticize Shelton have never really read or studied Shelton and as a result, they usually over emphasize Deficiencies while ignoring Toxicities and it really is a shame because there is so much we can learn from this man, including what NOT to do.  Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/06/2016 05:14PM by John Rose. Re: HOW DISEASES ARE CURED...
Posted by:
RawPracticalist
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Date: January 26, 2016 04:21PM "No Disease, including cancer can live in an alkaline environment” [healthywildandfree.com]
Maybe it is the eating of processed foods, lack of exercise, and poor living conditions that are the causes of diseases in the world. But for cancer even when the acidic environment is removed, cancer still remain. Re: HOW DISEASES ARE CURED...
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Panchito
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Date: January 26, 2016 08:20PM [en.wikipedia.org]
Respiratory alkalosis
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